These Kenyans! Part III

We have just been awakened to an epidemic disaster spreading in the North Eastern Province.The US government, having patiently observed for a month at the lax response exhibited by the government’ to the Rift Valley Fever (RVF), has decided to step in to avert further spread. At least 85 people in the province are now known to have died from Rift Valley Fever, while health experts from the Atlanta based Center for Disease Control (CDC) are warning that the viral disease is spreading south into Coast Province.- Job Obonyo in a Commentry. (Kenya Times 17th January 2007) Chiru Ngige has an answer for Andrew Okondo who said that Kenyan women no longer walk with an elegant gait, their hands held at an angle. Says she: “Andrew may well want to consider the fact that women in Nairobui are today too busy guarding their handbags to walk with their “arms at an angle”. Even the men have lost their elegance, spitting and relieving themselves in the streets, Why not have a go at them as well?”- Cutting Edge Column (Daily Nation 17th January 2007) A British national was yesterday fined Shs. 50,000 by Kibera magistrate Margaret Kasera for causing the death of a pedestrian by careless driving. In default, John Clifford Downing, 59, will serve a three year prison term. He was convicted of knocking down Eston Ombima after losing control of his car on January 31, 2005 at 11:25 am on Langata Road. - (People Daily 18th January, 2005) The war against drug abuse and illicit brew in general is far from being won. Law enforcers seem to be going for the barons and pushers while ignoring the small-scale users. In the recent past there has been cases of drugs like cannabis sativa being used on a large-scale at Kenya National Theatre, which is a base for many smokers who have even gone the extra mile to sustain the supply by planting the “weed” right outside the theatre as our picture (colour photo of the luxuriant weed with KNT blurred in the background) shows. Central Police Station is only a stone throw-away- Eduardo Lama (People Daily 19th Janaury 2007) After three-and-a-half years of oversight from the Anglican Church of Kenya in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, along with other congregations, have put in a request to Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi of Kenya to open more dioceses in southern USA. Archbishop Nzimbi, who visited the church over the weekend, received the petition from the church before it was posted on the church’s website for support across the USA- (People Daily 19th Janaury 2007)